Word Origin Summary

Ἀνταγωνιστής is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• antagonista

  Spanish · derived from

• antagonista

  Polish · derived from

• antagonista

  Portuguese · derived from

• antagonisti

  Finnish · derived from

• antagonism

  English · derived from

• antagonist

  English · derived from

• antagonista

  Catalan · derived from

• antagonista

  Maltese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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